REKM - Roy Elghanayan Krav Maga Krav Maga L.A., Santa Monica CA

I just began private training recently and have loved every second. The vibe and the people are insanely nice and it makes you want to keep coming back! I highly recommend coming if you are seriously about Krav Maga and being tested to your limit

The owner/instructor Roy is an amazing teacher BUT he has a major temperament and/or psychological issues. I had attended classes for roughly 1 1/2 - 2 years, a while back until.

Roy got ticked off because I was going to miss testing for one of the classes. I was not being tested but was just supposed to help out with the testing of the other level (which I would have been happy to do). BUT since the testing date had been rescheduled to a date during which I was to be out of town and already had a flight purchased for, there was no way for me to make it. So in class Roy sparred with me and went extra hard on me intentionally and ended up causing a full fracture + partial dislocation of my right arm. I knew something had happened in the midst of the sparring session but Roy still went on for a couple more minutes (could not get him to stop in the midst of the sparring session). Roy claims to be the only 2-time champion with the Israeli army but when you train your body to be a lethal weapon, you also need to have control of your mind and emotions - which Roy is clearly lacking! So thanks to Roy, I now have a metal plate in my arm.

It was a real bummer dealing with the recovery because I was going from sometimes doing 2 super intense classes a day there to not being able to do any upper body workout while my arm healed.

I had never sued anyone in my life but felt that this situation would warrant me hiring an attorney. Called the local CA bar association and got referred to an attorney who passed me off to a friend of his because he felt his friend would have a better understanding of the situation since he practiced martial arts. Unfortunately, that attorney never really did anything. But I was able to find out that Krav Maga LA had NO INSURANCE at the time my injury occurred. They had just moved from a leased space which had insurance included within their rent payment to a different space that they were responsible for getting their own insurance for (BUT they had not yet gotten around to it yet)! Plus they claimed that they had NO MONEY and THEY DID NOT PAY A PENNY towards my medical expenses. And to show how organized his brother Tamir, the business manager, is they had even managed to lose the waiver form that I signed when I initially signed up for classes.

To ADD INSULT TO INJURY.a while later Tamir contacted me and told me they wanted to do a pay-off to settle things with me. So I drove to Tamir's office in Westwood which he did just to have me sit down and insult me and laugh at me. What a prick!

Stay far away from these clowns! I was very forgiving of Roy's temper and lack of control until all this crap happened.

A little background on me - I am former military and have done many different types of high intensity sports & workouts including: Football, Wrestling, Karate, Kickboxing, Boxing and more.

The fact that they change locations every 1-2 years also seems a bit suspicious to me.